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Luke Roberts b. 1952

Also known as Her Divine Holiness Pope Alice

Artist (Performance Artist),
Artist (Photographer),
Artist (Painter)

Painter, photographer and performance artist, Luke Roberts was born in Alpha, QLD. He lives in Brisbane. The creator of the Mu Museum of Popular Art, his various wunderkammer have included an early museum of extraordinary objects in 'Australian Perspecta' 1995 and the Mu Embassy and Margaret Mead Memorial Sandpit in the Asia-Pacific Triennial in 1996.

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Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, QLD
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales began in the 1870s as an aspect of the Academy of Art. Later it became known as the National Art Gallery of NSW. This name persisted beyond Federation in 1901. It was given its present name in 1958.
It remains the principal collecting and exhibiting body in NSW and is governed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act of 1980.

Website

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
James Hardie Library, State Library of Queensland, QLD
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website

http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website

http://www.nga.gov.au/
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD

Website

http://www.usq.edu.au/
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD

Website

https://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/
Griffith University, Bisbane, QLD

Website

http://www.griffith.edu.au/
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Museum of Brisbane, QLD
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Jane Neville-Rolfe Gallery

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Related events	Biennale of Sydney: [The World May Be] Fantastic (exhibited at) Irene Sutton's Mary Place exhibition (exhibited at) The Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibited at) Australian Perspecta (exhibited at) Wunderkammer/Kunstkammera: an installation by Luke Roberts (exhibited at) Luke Roberts (exhibited at) Clutch (exhibited at) All Souls' Day: Luke Roberts, Urszula Szulakowski (exhibited at) Luke Roberts: AlphaStation/Alphaville (exhibited at) Op Shop (exhibited at) You are Here (exhibited at) Salon de la jeune peinture (exhibited at) Microcosm (exhibited at) Dislocations: body, memory, place (exhibited at)	Biennale of Sydney: [The World May Be] Fantastic (exhibited at) Irene Sutton's Mary Place exhibition (exhibited at) The Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibited at) Australian Perspecta (exhibited at) Wunderkammer/Kunstkammera: an installation by Luke Roberts (exhibited at) Luke Roberts (exhibited at) Clutch (exhibited at) All Souls' Day: Luke Roberts, Urszula Szulakowski (exhibited at) Luke Roberts: AlphaStation/Alphaville (exhibited at) Op Shop (exhibited at) You are Here (exhibited at) Salon de la jeune peinture (exhibited at) Microcosm (exhibited at)

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Luke Roberts b. 1952

Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, QLD

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

James Hardie Library, State Library of Queensland, QLD

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD

University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD

Griffith University, Bisbane, QLD

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD

Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

Museum of Brisbane, QLD

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD

Jane Neville-Rolfe Gallery

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